Digital Library Development

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Digital Library Federation

http://www.diglib.org/

Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.

Digital Library Initiatives

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/index.html

Planning information, project examples, publications and links at North Carolina State University.

Digital Library Projects at Columbia

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/

A selection of Columbia Information Services digital projects and initiatives.

Digital Library Tool Kit

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/digitaltoolkit.html

3rd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format.

Digital Preservation Coalition

http://www.dpconline.org/

Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Digital Materials handbook.

Digital Services Project

http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/

Program documents from the National Library of Australia.

DIGLIB Mailing List

http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm

For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.

DLib Forum and DLib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/

The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research.

DSpace: Durable Digital Depository

http://www.dspace.org/

A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information.

eVALUEd

http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/evalued/

Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.

Handbook for Digital Projects

http://nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/dighome.htm

From the Northeast Document Conservation Center, a manual for preservation and access, 1st edition, edited by Maxine K. Sitts.

Informedia-II Digital Video Library

http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/

Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization.

Interactive Digital Library Resource Information System (i-DLR)

http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~DL/iDLR/

A collection of resources created by graduate students at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

King's Digital Consultancy Services

http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.

LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web

http://lockss.stanford.edu/

Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.

MarcOnt Initiative

http://www.marcont.org/

Ontology development based on a social agreement that will combine descriptions from MARC21 together with DublinCore and makes use of the full potential of the Semantic Web technologies.

Minnesota Digital Library Project

http://www.mndigital.org/

An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.

Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British L

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04spink.html

Research project to investigate the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive users in digital environments, and to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behavior.

National Digital Library Program

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html

Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs.

NINCH Guide to Good Practice

http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.

NSDL Communication Portal

http://comm.nsdl.org/

Provides users and developers of the National Science Digital Library with an online collaborative area, including public workspaces, discussion forums, and support.

NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07griffin.html

Describes the Digital Libraries Initiative and focuses on how management can implement it.

Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (Paradigm)

http://www.paradigm.ac.uk

A JISC-funded project of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester to produce an online workbook on Digital Private Papers of use to libraries and archives in preserving digital research materials.

Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)

http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources.

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